This book focuses on Luis Frois, a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit and chronicler, who recorded his impressions of Japanese gardens, cities and building practices, tea-drinking rituals, Japan's unification efforts, cultural traditions, and the many differences between Europe and Japan in remarkable manuscripts almost lost to time.
This book presents the preservation principles and the current environmental challenges relating to monitoring heritage sites and buildings under the effects of climate change.
This book analyzes a large number of typical tulou buildings and compact communities in detail, and painstakingly studies the way of life practiced in these communities, their defense systems, building techniques, spatial features, antithetical couplets culture, and historical origins.
This volume explores the phenomenon and trend of cultural buildings by investigating 10 typical cities in China from the first, second, and third tiers, and from the Chinese diaspora.
This pivot sets Muslim shrines within the wider context of Heritage Studies in the Muslim world and considers their role in the articulation of sacred landscapes, their function as sites of cultural memory and their links to different religious traditions.
GNSS can detect the seismic atmospheric-ionospheric variations, which can be used to investigate the seismo-atmospheric disturbance characteristics and provide insights on the earthquake.
El Programa de Arquitectura de la Universidad Piloto de Colombia, mediante una catedra rodante en septiembre del 2005, programo el I Seminario de Guadua, Bahareque y Sismoresistencia.
Este libro presenta un sistema de proyeccion arquitectonica reconocido en el Edificio de Economia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, considerado como una obra que representa la sintesis material de un camino explorado por Fernando Martinez Sanabria en lo que se refiere al proceso de proyeccion.
El libro se ha constituido en un punto de referencia en el estudio de los barrios y de la ciudad en su desarrollo urbano popular, pues es un texto que llenó un vacío dejado por la historia tradicional.
This book offers a novel perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization, attained through technological apparatuses.
El presente documento expone el desarrollo del trabajo de grado para optar al título de magíster de la maestría en Construcción, de la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, titulado: "Reforzamiento estructural sismo resistente de viviendas informales en Bogotá.
Principios, herramientas e implementación de Lean Construction aborda el desarrollo de los sistemas de producción desde la producción artesanal, su evolución hacia la producción en masa, hasta el cambio radical del paradigma de producción en el siglo con el modelo Toyota en Japón, cuyas bases fueron utilizadas para proponer la teoría "transformación-flujo-valor" en la construcción.
This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsider urban walking and urban spaces in ways which extend into the digital sphere of online dialogue and screen sharing.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
This book is an academic essay about the urban regeneration policies which have been changing the physical - and partly social - outlook of many English cities during the last 10-15 years, eventually giving birth to a process which is also known as 'Urban Renaissance'.
This volume contains a selection of papers whose content have been presented at the International conferences CIPHI on Cultural Heritage and History of Engineering at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain, in recent years.
A neuroscientist's bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our timebrain and mental illnessesBrain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected.
One distinct feature of human society since the dawn of civilization is the systematic use of inorganic building materials, such as natural stone, unburnt and burnt soil, adobe and brick, inorganic binders like lime and cement, and reinforced concrete.
'For anyone who has wondered whether they'll ever be in charge of their emotions, this book has the answer: yes' - Angela Duckworth, author of Grit'This book does much more than make sense of emotions it breaks new ground on how to manage them' - Adam Grant, author of Think AgainWhether it s anxiety about the dentist, boiling rage when we re stuck in traffic or devastation after a painful break-up, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiralling.
La mayoría de los resultados de las investigaciones que se recogen en este libro son parte de un área relativamente nueva de investigación académica conocida como neurociencia educativa.
Este libro va dirigido a los jóvenes que se disponen a iniciar los estudios universitarios de Arquitectura y que se interrogan sobre el contenido de la carrera y la naturaleza de la profesión.
La obra de Martin Heidegger ha fascinado a arquitectos y teóricos de la arquitectura; ha influido en los proyectos de arquitectos tan diversos como Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Hans Scharoun y Colin St.
La obra de Martin Heidegger ha fascinado a arquitectos y teóricos de la arquitectura; ha influido en los proyectos de arquitectos tan diversos como Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Hans Scharoun y Colin St.
El trabajo de Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari ha sido siempre inspirador para arquitectos y teóricos de la arquitectura; pero, de forma generalizada, no ha sido bien entendido.
El trabajo de Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari ha sido siempre inspirador para arquitectos y teóricos de la arquitectura; pero, de forma generalizada, no ha sido bien entendido.
Este libro constituye la obra póstuma de Colin Rowe, uno de los historiadores y críticos de arquitectura más destacados de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.
El Ciclo de Conferencias TRAnSHUMANCIAS trata un conjunto de tematicas englobadas dentro de ambitos tan diversos como la arquitectura, la tecnologia, la ciencia y el arte, con el objetivo de re-establecer espacios transdisciplinares y propiciar la capacidad de dialogo y la interactuacionentre el campo cientifico y artistico.
This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural, and spatial research.
The architect should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test.
The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging.
domesticating symbols looks at the entropic dissolution of symbolic structures we are experiencing today and explores various approaches towards learning to create code.
